Addle-head (n.) Alt. of Addle-pate |
Apollinaris water () An effervescing alkaline mineral water used as a table beverage. It is obtained from a spring in Apollinarisburg, near Bonn. |
Artesian (a.) Of or pertaining to Artois (anciently called Artesium), in France. |
Cittern-head (n.) Blockhead |
Cubbridge-head (n.) A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship. |
Death's-head (n.) A naked human skull as the emblem of death |
Dragon's head () Alt. of Dragon's tail |
Feather-head (n.) A frivolous or featherbrained person. |
Fresh-water (a.) Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt |
Fresh-water (a.) Accustomed to sail on fresh water only |
Fresh-water (a.) Unskilled |
Giddy-head (n.) A person without thought fulness, prudence, or judgment. |
-head (suffix.) A variant of -hood. |
Head (n.) The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs |
Head (n.) The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object |
Head (n.) The place where the head should go |
Head (n.) The most prominent or important member of any organized body |
Head (n.) The place or honor, or of command |
Head (n.) Each one among many |
Head (n.) The seat of the intellect |
Head (n.) The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river |
Head (n.) A headland |
Head (n.) A separate part, or topic, of a discourse |
Head (n.) Culminating point or crisis |
Head (n.) Power |
Head (n.) A headdress |
Head (n.) An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals. |
Head (n.) A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles |
Head (n.) A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant. |
Head (n.) The antlers of a deer. |
Head (n.) A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor. |
Head (n.) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house. |
Head (a.) Principal |
Head (v. t.) To be at the head of |
Head (v. t.) To form a head to |
Head (v. t.) To behead |
Head (v. t.) To cut off the top of |
Head (v. t.) To go in front of |
Head (v. t.) To set on the head |
Head (v. i.) To originate |
Head (v. i.) To go or point in a certain direction |
Head (v. i.) To form a head |
Head-cheese (n.) A dish made of portions of the head, or head and feet, of swine, cut up fine, seasoned, and pressed into a cheeselike mass. |
Head gear (n.) Alt. of Headgear |
Head-hunter (n.) A member of any tribe or race of savages who have the custom of decapitating human beings and preserving their heads as trophies. The Dyaks of Borneo are the most noted head-hunters. |
Head-lugged (a.) Lugged or dragged by the head. |
High-pressure (a.) Having or involving a pressure greatly exceeding that of the atmosphere |
High-pressure (a.) Fig.: Urgent |
Horizon (n.) The circle which bounds that part of the earth's surface visible to a spectator from a given point |
Horizon (n.) A plane passing through the eye of the spectator and at right angles to the vertical at a given place |
press pressure pressing | the act of pressing, the exertion of pressure, he gave the button a press, he used pressure to stop the bleeding, at the pressing of a button |
water travel seafaring | travel by water |
water sport aquatics | sports that involve bodies of water |
water-skiing | skiing on water while being towed by a motorboat |
water polo | a game played in a swimming pool by two teams of swimmers who try to throw an inflated ball into the opponents' goal |
treading water | a stroke that keeps the head above water by thrashing the legs and arms |
delusion illusion head game | the act of deluding, deception by creating illusory ideas |
water conservation | the conservation of water resources |
oral sex head | oral stimulation of the genitals, they say he gives good head |
water development water project water program | making an area of water more useful |
self-gratification head trip | the act of satisfying your own desires and giving yourself pleasure |
head | a single domestic animal, head of cattle |
water thrush | brownish North American warbler found near streams |
water ouzel dipper | small stocky diving bird without webbed feet, frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom |
European water ouzel Cinclus aquaticus | a water ouzel of Europe |
American water ouzel Cinclus mexicanus | a water ouzel of western North America |
water snake | any of various mostly harmless snakes that live in or near water |
common water snake banded water snake Natrix sipedon Nerodia sipedon | in some classifications placed in the genus Nerodia, western United States snake that seldom ventures far from water |
water moccasin | any of numerous North American water snakes inhabiting fresh waters |
water moccasin cottonmouth cottonmouth moccasin Agkistrodon piscivorus | venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States |
waterfowl water bird waterbird | freshwater aquatic bird |
water shrew | any of several small semiaquatic shrews usually living near swift-flowing streams |
American water shrew Sorex palustris | water shrew of North America |
European water shrew Neomys fodiens | widely distributed Old World water shrew |
Mediterranean water shrew Neomys anomalus | a type of water shrew |
daphnia water flea | minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell, moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae |
cyclops water flea | minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming, important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms |
gallinule marsh hen water hen swamphen | any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens |
American coot marsh hen mud hen water hen Fulica americana | a coot found in North America |
water turkey Anhinga anhinga | blackish New World snakebird of swampy regions |
water dog | a dog accustomed to water and usually trained to retrieve waterfowl |
water spaniel | any dog of two large curlyoated breeds used for hunting waterfowl |
American water spaniel | breed of medium-sized spaniels originating in America having chocolate or liverolored curly coat |
Irish water spaniel | breed of large spaniels developed in Ireland having a heavy coat of liverolored curls and a topknot of long curls and a nearly hairless tail |
water vascular system | system of fluid-filled tubes used by echinoderms in locomotion and feeding and respiration |
water beetle | any of numerous aquatic beetles usually having a smooth oval body and flattened hind legs for swimming |
head louse Pediculus capitis | infests the head and body of humans |
German cockroach Croton bug crotonbug water bug Blattella germanica | small light-brown cockroach brought to United States from Europe, a common household pest |
water bug | a true bug: large aquatic bug adapted to living in or on the surface of water |
giant water bug | large water bug with piercing and sucking mouthparts, feeds on young fishes |
water scorpion | long-legged aquatic insect having the front legs fitted for seizing and holding prey and the abdomen extended by a long breathing tube |
water boatman boat bug | carnivorous aquatic bug having paddle-like hind legs |
water strider pond-skater water skater | long-legged bug that skims about on the surface of water |
death's-head moth Acherontia atropos | European hawkmoth with markings on the back resembling a human skull |
water rat | any of various amphibious rats |
round-tailed muskrat Florida water rat Neofiber alleni | of Florida wetlands |
water vole Richardson vole Microtus richardsoni | of western North America |
water vole water rat Arvicola amphibius | common large Eurasian vole |
water buffalo water ox Asiatic buffalo Bubalus bubalis | an Asian buffalo that is often domesticated for use as a draft animal |
water chevrotain water deer Hyemoschus aquaticus | largest chevrotain, of marshy areas of west Africa |